mission to teach me the creation of why you should care about. this. is why you should care. exactly two years after egyptians started a revolution that would bring down hosni mubarak they're on the streets again testing just as fiercely against the islamist regime but replace the toppled president. a decorated cia veteran and the man who first confirmed america's torture of detainees gets years in jail over his leaks and explains why it's him and not the torture it's the take the fall. and sanctions for the korean peninsula to the brink of war with pyongyang vowing to attack what it called the traitorous if it joins in with fresh international restrictions. plus a rowdy russian flight where it wasn't just the plane that was flying fists were. boozed up business started this crap in the skies even threatening to kill the

pilots and force an emergency landing. around the world online on screen live from the new center here in moscow this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day over one hundred people have reportedly been injured across egypt now as hundreds of thousands rally on the second anniversary of the start of the country's revolution people on how to celebrate their venting anger against the new government which came to power following the eighteen day our prizing that toppled the long time leadership of hosni mubarak current post reporter bel true has the latest. the scenes here have really become quite chaotic across the country as the january twenty five anniversary rallies turn violent we've heard dozens of industry

injuries across the country with clashes happening in xandra airport sayit suicide hotline of course cairo in addition there's been reports that the freedom and justice party headquarters which is the political wing of the muslim brotherhood has been attacked and it's been a. here in downtown cairo really stings the volleys of tear gas coming over to my left here as a clashes between protesters and security forces really escalating i've just been on top a square where i witnessed a quite violent attack on a woman by four groups a sex attack on her she was stripped and beaten and taken away by ambulance another one talking apparently on a different side of the square people believe this is people coming to scratch trying to stop protesters from protesting against the president definitely we're going to witness these scenes go on into the night kyra really disappointing to violence two years ago when two hundred twenty five people came to the street to the high enough of the injustice of the hosni mubarak regime today people say that back here because they see no change just speaking to people today on top of their

minds with the economy they say the situation is unbearable definitely according to johnny right to sticks at least a quarter of the population now under the poverty line of course the constitution itself is it a sticking point for people saying dominate is drafted by an islamist dominated constituent assembly and does not represent gyptian these are really a key point is that people saying is the reason why they're here protesting against the president's i calling to change. and geo political analysts will and delves as the government in egypt is more concerned with keeping its grip on power than having a stable economy. well the problem is this is a minority of the muslim brotherhood it's the best organized force in the country after the toppling of mubarak. but the and it's backed by by what action by the obama administration which gives them additional clout the problem is they just ran through a constitution that in effect what's happening is the muslim brotherhood is establishing

islamic dictatorship i think they're so preoccupied with this sure real agenda this is a llama zation the creating this this state which de facto laws that is emerging to be an islamic fascist regime most totalitarian regime that will regulate every corner of life and they're less concerned evidently with the real functioning know what comedy so that. probably needs it right now a terror attack alarm in libya's second largest city three european governments call for the immediate evacuation of their citizens and then fears the city could soon be ripped apart by tax more on that for you in just a few minutes from now also ahead. this is more figures which expose britain's fragile finances there are fears the country may slip into another recession and lose its top notch credit rating after g.d.p. shrinks again we'll get live expert reaction from london very shortly. but first an ex cia veteran who ever saw the capture of al qaeda is third in

command has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail for leaking classified intelligence john kiriakou who was the first to blow the whistle on washington's torture program later revealed the name of an alleged torture at guantanamo bay our he's going to come reports on his predicament. the cia veteran the former chief of counterterrorism operations in pakistan john kiriakou will spend thirty months in prison for leaking the identity of an agent but before he was prosecuted mr keating after had been actively speaking out against torture and now he and his supporters believe that he was prosecuted for coming clean over torture practices in the cia it started with an investigation into how military defense attorneys at guantanamo bay obtained the names and photographs of cia personnel authorities eventually tracked one name back to a reporter who had spoken to mr. rather than risk a far longer prison term and because he could no longer afford these legal fees and

stick it out when a cobra agreed to plead guilty to one of the five charges against him violating the intelligence identities protection act by e-mailing the name of a covert cia officer to a freelance reporter who never even published it there's something very disturbing about this case had john actually engaged in torture he wouldn't be in any trouble at all he never even would have been investigated because he talked about torture with reporters he's going to prison the fact of the matter is that the u.s. government has classified everything related to its torture practices which means nobody can be prosecuted for human rights violations that were systematic of systematically committed one hundred right here is what mr get out who says about that i never tortured anybody but i get into prison while the torture is in the layers of people who root and the people who deceived and the man who destroyed the tapes will never sees justice and that's the saddest part of the story. this is an

inspiration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined and while protecting those who have committed preacher who have ordered torture behind this wall of classification contrary to popular belief president obama didn't stop the united states and torturing he just stopped it from torturing on his watch through an executive order which means that the us could be only another executive order away from some other president or vice president deciding to torture again. the thirty month sentence that's been talked about is part of john kiriakou plea deal but the judge could still refuse to settle for that meaning he could potentially face far greater jail time as for the accusations former cia officer ray mcgovern believes them to be political. he's being punished out of range hypocrisy. look at the chronology here in two thousand and seven john kiriakou came out very loudly against torture as being not worthy of the united

states and not efficient not a way to get information what happened well the instructions were to get people to confess confess to what you first for the existence of weapons of mass destruction in iraq confess to the existence of operational ties between al qaeda and saddam hussein it was all a crock they had to make this stuff up and you can't get real flyable information from torture but you know what torture works beautifully if you want unreliable information and so they kind not only tired not only weapons of mass destruction but ties between iraq and al qaeda and it was a masterful propaganda performance on the part of the united states on the part of the u.k. prime minister a vital anti terror weapon or a deadly threat to civilians u.n. investigators looking to whether the use of drone strikes mainly by the u.s.

could amount to war crimes that is coming your way very shortly this hour on r.t. . but first alcohol and airplanes it's often a dangerous mix and so it proved for one high rolling russian businessman he's hit the headlines after a booze fuelled brawl at thirty thousand feet going to spin off tells the tale of mile high madness. it started out as an ordinary flights to one of the popular holiday destinations for many russians egypt so you can imagine the passengers are sitting there in their seats visualizing how they're going to be sunbathing just in a couple of hours but then suddenly the resent is interrupted by one very troubled past and. this man there we go appears to have had a little bit too much visualisation if you know what i mean started smoking in a laboratory then he attacked one of the passengers so the flight attendant tried stopping him he started attacking the flight attendant and he announced that he's a former member of the swat team he's also said that he was

a member of the deputy of the city duma a businessman all these things in one he was actually warned that his actions could be taken as a hijacking of the plane he said he didn't care who threatened that he was going to kill all the passengers on the plane he said that he could do it with just his two fingers and then he said that he was going to try to land the plane himself on a water so the plane did land and. the staff staff passed him over to a local police in egypt but he was traveling with his wife and a three year old daughter who he held up and when he was detained the police well basically released him just in a matter of minutes without actually pressing any charges but the good thing the police in russia are now waiting for him to come back since they do have this video they do have reports from all the witnesses so the story's not over yet but this does bring us to the question of how much alcohol should be given to passengers because this is far from the only case of flights erupting on board of flights and in some cases the passengers duty you have to take it in their own hands to calm

the passengers down like the one incident when the passengers were also with the passenger was also quite aggressive they had to duct tape the guy to his seat he spent the entire transatlantic flight from iceland to the states like that but it's not always as bad sometimes good things happen like this bill on board a flight i don't know if alcohol was involved in this case but i guess if it was it wouldn't be that bad if every time it happened like that. another standoff but this time on the ground russian lawmakers move closer to forcing a gay promotion bill while activists both for and against scuffle outside parliament amid arguments for motion is an attack on freedom of details on that coming up in just a few minutes from now. but first north korea is warning of the war saying it will attack south korea if its neighbor takes part in fresh u.n.

sanctions the ultimatum marks or third day of rhetoric with pyongyang previously vowing more nuclear and ballistic tests james corbet editor of a japan based news website says that the region is on the brink. joining it is an absolute wild card in this whole situation and it really is just an irrational actor in the whole scene there in it it's been years now of carrots and sticks and neither of them seem to have any effect there seems to be periods of relative quiet and then periods of janick and threats and violence threats of violence and so far that has failed to materialize into into very much you know on the korean peninsula but of course it's always possible that some sort of some incident could come out of this i don't think anyone even the north koreans really want to see that but i think it is a way of keeping focus on the region and keeping people coming back to the table with north korea but i don't think north korea is ultimately going to be the the actor that will have to be involved for a solution to this i think this is going to have to involve china at some point

because they are the ones that are keeping with korea on an economic leash and a lifeline or a new. tough economic times are forcing people in britain to think else sawed the box when it comes to making and neat but one option for the increasingly popular kids from slavery later this hour what about how predatory money lending the dragon the u.k. forest and most vulnerable into a web that knows that we have live expert opinion on the u.k.'s economy that coming up shortly after the break. here the reindeer isn't everything for the herders and when it suffers people do their best to help. but the distances are. and the roads are an unpredictable.

well the remedy be on time. wealthy british style. is not on. the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report. continues here in our economic woes continue to shake europe police have launched

a pre-dawn raid on the metro depo in athens to remove transport stuff striking against drastic cuts to their wages the government issued an emergency order forcing the employees to go back to work deep wage concert be made by the greek government as part of a sturdy measures aimed at saving the country from bankruptcy meanwhile in the belgium capital still workers a clash with police over the closure of a steel company measure will lead to around thirteen hundred job cuts and the british economy by soon find itself in the doldrums official figures are showing that g.d.p. shrank more than expected recently in the country's on the verge of a triple dip recession we're told more than the prospects for u.k. finances i'm joined live by multiple he's the director of the institute of economic affairs in london so one of the reasons behind this contraction in the u.k. is g.d.p. . well we got to be a little careful about the numbers you're absolutely right what you say the numbers for the last quarter of twenty twelve show that the economy went backwards no point

three percent and it's very easy for the media and economists to get very excited about whether the numbers are just a little bit under zero or just a little bit above zero and if the numbers for this quarter that we're presently in first quarter twenty thirty you're also below zero technically that will be a triple dip recession of course we need to bear in mind when you look back actually a couple of years later often these numbers are revised up or down so we shouldn't really trust them to the very last decimal point what we've seen it appears over twenty twelve is not the british economy absolutely tanking but basically flat lining and that is pretty much been the picture for the last two years and it looks like we're going to be at about zero percent growth for twenty twelve so ok it's not a crushing recession but it's certainly not a parent's back yes well whatever the figures say and how you read into those figures it's still not good news is it not for britain's conservative led

government it doesn't say a lot about its austerity program which it has been defending is it a sign that it is not working that it's been a disaster. well certainly what the coalition government here in the u.k. are doing isn't working if the aim is to produce growth rates of two or three percent and indeed the government's independent forecasters suggested two years ago that we would be experiencing those sort of levels and growth of growth in the u.k. economy about now and i'm afraid that has turned out to be of white very good let's be clear about this austerity but six a lot does seem that the u.k. government has persuaded itself and most of the media and all of their political opponents that there is some savage program of spending cuts being undertaken in the united kingdom that's a long way from the truth when you actually look at the numbers rather than the political rhetoric the government is cutting spending by about one percent a year a pretty trivial amount and he's actually over the course of this poll

a month from two thousand and ten to two thousand and fifteen going to and six hundred billion dollars to the u.k.'s national debt that's to say it's going to spend six hundred billion dollars more than it brings in in taxation and about ten thousand pounds for every man woman and child in the united kingdom so although the government is seeking to get spending under control and to stop it accelerating away these are hardly savage cuts this is the biggest fiscal stimulus that will be conducted by any government through public spending in any of our lifetimes in the united came but your measured interpretation of this would that convince investors because if this decline continues u.k. is going to find itself in another recession now won't that affect the country's top notch rating and of course have an adverse effect on the confidence for investors in the u.k. . you're absolutely right to hit on the confidence point an awful lot swings on that so far although i think the government's fiscal retrenchment very multi

spending cuts have been exactly that motorist at least the government has retained to tell you the confidence of the international money markets that means that the united kingdom has kept at least for now its prize aaa rating the international money market saying that the u.k. is a safe place to be there are some concerns that might be downgraded if that stand graded that's not a matter of life and death for the economy but that could be an indication that interest rates could start to go up at the moment the government and indeed private businesses in the u.k. are already built of very cheaply because by and large they are trusted but what we did see interest rates go up from their present levels of effectively being zero to two percent five percent or even higher then the u.k. would really feel the pinch because even those who had a fairly torrid time of it over the last year have for example not had a great deal of difficulty tending to replace their mortgage because interest rates

are so large that both start shooting upwards and the pinch will really be felt and that's why it's vital for george osborne the transfer of the exchequer and the wider government to retain the confidence of the international markets my fear is that they will struggle to do that unless they can show they really also extremely serious about getting public spending under control and they are taking far far too long to bring the budget back into balance they also need i think a clearer plan for what's really going to attract business investment in the u.k. and what's going to make it easier for intrapreneur as their rhetoric is often very encouraging in this regard that we've got to deregulate we've got to make it easier to get your business set up we've got to make it easier for you to take on employers but in fact the policy framework behind it has been really rather feeble there certainly hasn't been a bonfire of red right and regulation for example there's been a mere small during the best of ok mark good to hear your thoughts on this very interesting we appreciate a little bit direct to the institute of economic affairs live in london.

well tough times are pushing people in the u.k. to make hard decisions in the moment more and more families are taking out so-called payday loans with huge interest rates to put money in their pockets not the sort of looks at what pushing people to turn to these companies. payday loans tools have become a common sight in britain's towns and cities with the threat of a triple dip recession hanging over them more and more cash strapped families looking for a quick way to make ends meet with a loan from one go dot com you can borrow up to one thousand pounds for up to thirty one days the northeast in particular has seen a big increase recently in the number of payday loans that are popping up on the high streets now here in this part of the sunblock you can see there's not just one of these payday loan stalls but right next door to. this area is one of the poorest in the u.k. and when you take a closer look at these stores promises of instant cash they come with sky high

interest rates. but working providing advice days you know what takes just moments to approve can lead to years of debt misery what happens is if i haven't got the money at the end of the month to be a repeat then of course we will continue war and then we're going to look really alone to try and pay off the period normal border first. saw the most try one go first go on to quick witted want to do you clear and it's just a never ending cycle we were one of the representatives the leading paid a link provided why the industry seems to be lending irresponsibly it doesn't make any sense to lend to somebody who can't afford to pay you back so the members i represent spend an awful lot of investment in the best technology to make the best assessment of somebodies affordability but these are areas of the united kingdom and some of the poorest communities so that seems quite targeted why

are they choosing these areas where you'd expect that people wouldn't be able to pay back that money what you're finding is these members are setting up in secondary high streets where the rates are lower they're also setting up where there's a demand the government says it's conducting an extensive review of the payday lending sector with this site on tighter regulation but in the meantime and dave has some clear advice for anyone thinking about taking out a payday loan nor. for new or avoid them like the plague so r.t. reporting from. the skyscraper being constructed in the heart of moscow's business district goes up in flames the person was injured and hundreds from the building off to the far broke out around the twenty third floor and had on line for more pictures and reaction. and being online is essential for german media now is of

course their demands one media company pays compensation for not providing internet services well luckily we've got a website for you where you can find more on that story and that is dot com. another counterterrorism effort by the us is under the microscope the un has launched an inquiry into the legality of using drones worldwide investigation comes amid rising concern that the floor of what anti terror strikes has done little to protect civilians rights activists suggest that in pakistan alone over a quarter of those killed by cia drone attacks on innocent bystanders what is going to start a chicken a report. what we have going on is a group of top notch international law specialist spearheaded by the un special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism launching this investigation into the drone attacks carried out by the united states in recent years they're going to be looking into the drone strikes taking place over somalia yemen of get a stand pakistan and the actions of israel when it comes to the occupied

territories the group plans to look into from twenty to thirty specific strikes one of the areas they're going to concentrate on are the so-called double tap strikes where rescuers for example people running to save victims of a drone strike were attacked by a follow up or are people going to funerals this is been something that's been a big concern lately with dozens of people dying in those incidents so this is what they're going to look into this is something that's going to last a while they will look into the numbers of casualties the identities of casualties and really the legal liabilities that might follow and this is something that we're not really expecting any kind of legal serious accusations to come out of but one of the things they're looking into is whether or not work crime is a term that can be used a very strong term so this is something that we're going to have to find out when this report finally reveals in the months to come well is what prompted this investigation is of course growing concerns that the increased attacks killing civilians and children on the ground this is something that's been

a big concern for years this is something that's causing huge anti-american sentiment in places like yemen specifically where recently in the latest drone strike two children were killed and we saw a group of countries russia china and pakistan addressed the u.n. human rights council and saying look we need to investigate this further so this investigation is now being launched and it's also you know the numbers really speaking for themselves one hundred seventy eight children died just in yemen in recent years eight hundred ninety one civilian since the year two thousand and four just in pakistan so this is something that needs to be addressed and the goal of this particular investigation is exactly that. doesn't check into that british german and dutch authorities have called on message dozens to evacuate immediately from libya's second largest city of benghazi is fit it could soon be the target of an attack similar to the one in neighboring algeria that resulted in dozens of hostage deaths geo political analyst patrick henson think the aftershocks from the libyan revolution will spread throughout the region please natural two to have that

fear we've had a number of. serious incidents in libya and also in neighboring algeria recently so yes it would definitely be off limits for foreigners the destabilization we see right now is a direct result of the nato policies that brought about the situation there with the overthrow of could off the and they also have to take europe has to take responsibility as well as america for the spread of any islamic extremism into the neighboring countries there are rumors that were floating around recently that x. could off the chemical weapons were being shipped over to syria and were going to be used to blame assad. and there are some international news in brief police of open foreign sunni protesters in fallujah sixty kilometers north of the iraqi capital leaving five dead and shootings have bushy's came out friday prayers is the

most violent incident in iraq since sunnis started protesting against the government in december last year. six people have died in a mudslide in a gold mining community in southern naked or at least eighteen others have been injured in the incident triggered by several days of heavy rain the slides of engulfed homes and blocked roads the area that can only be reached by helicopter. rational makers apos the first reading of the bill which bans the promotion of homosexuality among children that just as church has already been dubbed by its opponents as anti-gay and today provoked scuffles outside parliament do you know neil explains why the bill has sparked so much anger. well the view of gay rights campaigners seems that be the bill is very little to do it actually protecting children and much more to do with curbing the rights of sexual minorities in the country now as you said the first reading of the bail hostel will be two more

readings before the bill is passed to the upper house of parliament then it can become into law when it is signed by president. scuffles broke out earlier this week between people who supported the bill others who saw it simply as a crackdown on their civil liberties you know that also came to a head earlier today just outside the state duma before the first reading was passed one activist one gay rights activist was assaulted at least twenty. people on both sides were also arrested. artie's union o'neill there well the plight of the global economy fueled by europe's long running debt woes all that is being chewed over at this year's financial forum at the flash ski resort of davos and artie's natasha is there for us she'll be with you live after this break.